EP1888354A1 - Ball-shaped coupling comprising a sealed contact area - Google Patents
Ball-shaped coupling comprising a sealed contact areaInfo
- Publication number
- EP1888354A1 EP1888354A1 EP06753711A EP06753711A EP1888354A1 EP 1888354 A1 EP1888354 A1 EP 1888354A1 EP 06753711 A EP06753711 A EP 06753711A EP 06753711 A EP06753711 A EP 06753711A EP 1888354 A1 EP1888354 A1 EP 1888354A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- ball
- coupling
- seal
- socket
- sealing
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Granted
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60D—VEHICLE CONNECTIONS
- B60D1/00—Traction couplings; Hitches; Draw-gear; Towing devices
- B60D1/58—Auxiliary devices
- B60D1/586—Lubrication means
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60D—VEHICLE CONNECTIONS
- B60D1/00—Traction couplings; Hitches; Draw-gear; Towing devices
- B60D1/01—Traction couplings or hitches characterised by their type
- B60D1/06—Ball-and-socket hitches, e.g. constructional details, auxiliary devices, their arrangement on the vehicle
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60D—VEHICLE CONNECTIONS
- B60D1/00—Traction couplings; Hitches; Draw-gear; Towing devices
- B60D1/01—Traction couplings or hitches characterised by their type
- B60D1/06—Ball-and-socket hitches, e.g. constructional details, auxiliary devices, their arrangement on the vehicle
- B60D1/065—Ball-and-socket hitches, e.g. constructional details, auxiliary devices, their arrangement on the vehicle characterised by the hitch mechanism
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a ball coupling for coupling a traction vehicle with a trailing vehicle, which ball coupling comprises a coupling ball and a ball socket which can be coupled thereto, which surrounds a portion of the coupling ball in AnkupplungsSullivan and rests with a counter-bearing surface on a contact surface of the coupling ball to form a common contact area.
- Generic ball couplings are known for example from DE 201 16 970 U1. From this document is known in particular, to introduce wear reduction of the ball coupling components lubricant in the investment area, in which the contact surface of the coupling ball and the counter-bearing surface of the ball socket are in engagement with each other.
- a disadvantage of the known ball coupling is that due to external influences, such as whirled up dirt, splash water and the like, given the relative mobility of ball socket and coupling ball
- Impurities may undesirably get into the Aniage Scheme and thus affect the trained there lubricating film or even destroy, which in turn can lead to increased wear of the ball coupling.
- the contact area is therefore movable in the event of a relative movement of the ball socket and coupling ball. If this application states that the contact area is sealed to the outside environment, this should not only include the case of a hermetic and complete seal, but in accordance with the solution also include the case that the contact area is protected against the ingress of splashing water and coarse dirt.
- the seal according to the present invention does not have to prevent any leakage of lubricant from the abutment area to the outside environment or any entry of any fluid from the outside environment into the abutment area. According to the invention, it is sufficient if the seal is capable of dirt, spray water and the like to a significant degree to prevent entry into the investment area:
- the coupling ball has a convex-spherical surface over large sections and the ball socket generally has a concave-part-spherical shape, at least in the region of its counter-contact surface, the contact area can be particularly easily and safely protected against the undesired entry of dirt when the seal is longitudinal a circular path runs, so that their investment location on one of the components: coupling ball or ball socket, a partial annular sealing path.
- each intersection of this surface with the plane is a circle, so that a partial ring-shaped investment location of the seal on the respective component a major part Protect investment area from the unwanted ingress of contaminants.
- the seal extends only along a pitch circle, such as when it is not expected in a certain range of ball coupling that get rid of this area of contamination to the ball coupling, but is preferably the investment area as completely as possible Protect circumferential seal with an annularly closed sealing membrane against the undesired entry of contaminants from the outside environment.
- Thickness can have.
- Sealing path are considered to be closed in an annular manner, in which, viewed from a polar coordinate origin enclosed by the sealing path, the seal abuts against the respective component at any desired angular coordinate at at least one point.
- the sealing web itself can be formed from a plurality of unconnected sealing web sections and can still be considered to be annular in the context of this application, if the separate sealing web sections overlap one another in the circumferential direction or at least abut each other.
- the seal does not hinder the contact between the contact surface and the counter-contact surface and nevertheless can fulfill its protective function of the contact area as well as possible, it is advantageous if the diameter of the sealing path is smaller than the largest diameter of the coupling ball.
- the coupling ball compared with the counter-bearing surface of the ball socket has a much larger spherical and thus arbitrary symmetrical surface, it is to avoid spatially and / or temporally at least partially izoeingriffsup preferred if the seal is held on the ball socket and movable relative to the coupling ball with this , Because of the above-mentioned large spherical surface of the coupling ball, namely even with pitch and roll movements of the ball socket relative to the coupling ball there provided with radially inwardly facing sealing point on the surface of the coupling ball fitting seal remains in engagement with the spherical surface of the coupling ball.
- the sealing path is defined by the system of the seal on the surface of the coupling ball. In this case, a particularly good sealing effect can be achieved if the
- Seal at a portion of the coupling ball is applied such that at least for a portion of the sealing sheet, preferably for the entire
- lifting direction the direction in which the ball socket in the considered position of the ball socket relative to the coupling ball can be lifted from it is designated by "lifting direction.”
- the lifting direction is thus a direction fixedly coupled to the ball socket and movable relative to the coupling ball.
- the seal if it has a sealing lip which is displaceable in the radial direction.
- the sealing lip according to a preferred embodiment of present invention of a seal main body such that it, as viewed in a cross section, is displaceable by bending about an orthogonal to the cross-sectional plane bending axis in the radial direction.
- the ball socket comprises a substantially concave-part-spherical counter-contact surface and, further, an insertion section located between the ball-socket mouth and the counter-contact surface.
- the arrangement of the seal on the ball socket is then preferably provided in such a way that the seal is arranged in the insertion to avoid interference of the system engagement between ball socket and coupling ball.
- a preferably circumferential groove in the ball socket may be formed in the insertion section, a preferably circumferential groove in the ball socket.
- the groove can be made for example in the form of a recess.
- the seal can be very easily inserted, and it is preferably surrounded in the inserted state of three sides, so that both their radial and their axial position is well defined.
- seal carrier which the seal carrier is attached with fastening means on one of the components: coupling ball and ball socket.
- a secure attachment of the seal to the ball socket for example, be ensured by the fact that the seal carrier is formed of metal, with a thus, preferably by vulcanization, connected sealing main body.
- the counter-contact surface has at least one lubricant bag, in which the surface areas of contact surface and counter-contact surface are arranged in Ankupplungsschreib with radial distance from each other that between these surface areas lubricant can be stored.
- lubricant bags are already known from DE 201 16 970 U1, the disclosure of which in the context of the lubricant pockets here incorporated by reference and included in the present application.
- the counter-contact surface is supplied by a lubricant line in AnkupplungsSullivan from the outside with lubricant.
- the lubricant line comprise a provided on the ball socket grease nipple.
- Fig. 2 is a corresponding in the view of Fig. 1 cross-section of a second embodiment of a coupling according to the invention.
- a ball coupling according to the invention is generally designated 10.
- the ball coupling 10 includes a coupling ball 12 usually connected to a towing vehicle, not shown, as well as a ball socket 16 usually connected to the drawbar 14 of a follower vehicle, not shown.
- the ball socket 16 has, starting from an orifice 18, a substantially concave recess 20.
- the recess 20 comprises an insertion section 20a located closer to the opening 18 and a concave-part-spherical coupling section 20b adjoining the insertion section 20a.
- the concave-part-spherical coupling portion 20b has a substantially part-spherical concave counter-bearing surface 22, with which the part-spherical convex surface 23 of the coupling ball comes into abutting engagement in the AnkupplungsMit the ball coupling 10.
- the concave-part-spherical counter-bearing surface 22 of the ball socket 16 is rotationally symmetrical to a rotational axis R.
- the axis of rotation R in the coupling state is oriented orthogonally to the substrate U when the train and trailing vehicle train is stationary on level ground U.
- a to the underground U parallel great circle of the coupling ball 12 is denoted by 26.
- the contact area 28, on which in Fig. 1, the counter-contact surface 22 of the ball socket 16 in contact with the Lying contact surface 24 of the coupling ball 12, is in the example shown in Fig. 1, based on the underground parallel large circle 26, on the side facing away from the underground U side of the coupling ball 12 extends close to the underground parallel great circle 26 zoom.
- the boundary of the contact area 28 toward the ground U is marked by the dashed line 29.
- the contact area 28 moves with the ball socket 16 with.
- the center M of the coupling ball 12 and the center m of the spherical counter-bearing surface 22 of the ball socket 16 ideally coincide, so that translationally acting forces between the coupling ball 12 and the ball socket 16 in at least two spatial directions, but no torques can be transmitted.
- lubricant pockets 30 and 32 are formed, in which a distance between the surface of the Kugelpfannenaus principleung 20 and the surface 23 of the coupling ball 12 is composed, so that a contiguous cavity 34, to which the lubricant pockets 30 and 32 belong, be supplied by a lubricant line 36 from the outside via a screwed into the lubricant line 36 not shown grease nipple with lubricant.
- a circumferentially circumferential seal 38 is provided in the insertion section 20a of the ball socket.
- a likewise circumferential sealing lip 40 rests along an annular closed sealing path 42 on the coupling ball 12.
- the diameter of the sealing web 42 is smaller than the diameter of the great circle 26.
- the sealing lip 40 protrudes from the likewise circumferential sealing main body 44 projecting such that they are viewed in the
- FIG. 1 Cross-section of FIG. 1 to a to the drawing and cross-sectional plane of FIG.
- the ball socket 16 with the seal 38 can be very easily placed on the coupling ball 12 and lifted from this.
- the seal 38 is mechanically stressed only slightly due to the deformability of the sealing lip 40, so that a long service life is to be expected.
- the lifting direction A of the ball socket 16 is shown in FIG. It runs in the direction of the axis of symmetry R of the coupling ball 12 away.
- the lifting direction A is based on the ball socket 16 stationary and moves with this relative to the coupling ball with.
- the sealing strip 42 is located at a location of the coupling ball such that an outgoing of the sealing web 42 surface normal vector N of the surface of the coupling ball 12 has a the lifting direction A opposite direction component N a . This ensures that during a relative movement of the ball socket 16 relative to the coupling ball 12 in lifting direction A, the sealing effect of the seal 38 is increased, since then the sealing web 42 displaced toward the great circle 26 and due to the increasing diameter of the sealing strip 42, the elastic deformation the sealing lip 40 increases, so that this presses with increased restoring force against the surface of the coupling ball 12.
- FIG. 2 a second embodiment of the present invention is shown.
- the same components as in Fig. 1 are in Fig. 2 with the same
- a seal 138 is screwed to the ball socket 116 by screws 150 as fastening means.
- the seal 138 is placed at the mouth 118 on the ball socket 116 and screwed by a plurality of screws 150 thereto.
- the seal 138 also constitutes a circumferential closed ring.
- the seal 138 comprises a metallic ring as a seal carrier
- seal body 144 on which a sealing main body 144 is vulcanized with a projecting from this in the radial direction to the symmetry axis R out projecting sealing lip 140.
- the seal body 144 may be applied to others
- the seal carrier 145 is through a
- the sealing lip 40 shown in FIG. 1 ideally touches the surface 23 of the coupling ball 12 along a linear sealing path 42
- the sealing lip 140 of the seal 138 in FIG. 2 lies along a flat annular sealing path 142 against the spherical surface 123 of the coupling ball 112.
- the sealing path 142 is like the sealing web 42 in one in Figures 1 and 2 to the symmetry axis R of the ball socket 16 and 116 orthogonal plane. In the case of FIG. 2, this plane has a certain thickness, namely a thickness which corresponds to the axial extent of the sealing path 142.
- the seal 138 shown in FIG. 2 can be very easily removed from the ball socket 116 by loosening the screws 150 and replaced by a new seal 138. This makes it possible to solve worn and damaged seals in a few simple steps and replace.
- the seal 38 can be replaced by removal from the circumferential groove 39 and inserting a new seal 38 in the circumferential groove 39.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 can also be used in combination, so that a ball coupling according to the invention comprises at least one seal for sealing the contact area.
- the circumferential groove 39 shown in FIG. 1 can also be formed as a groove as well as a built-up groove through the ball socket and another component connected thereto.
- the groove may for example be bounded in two directions by one element: ball socket or further component, and in a third direction by the respective other element.
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- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Transportation (AREA)
- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Pivots And Pivotal Connections (AREA)
- Rolling Contact Bearings (AREA)
- Fittings On The Vehicle Exterior For Carrying Loads, And Devices For Holding Or Mounting Articles (AREA)
- Pens And Brushes (AREA)
- Coupling Device And Connection With Printed Circuit (AREA)
- Orthopedics, Nursing, And Contraception (AREA)
- Retarders (AREA)
- Joints Allowing Movement (AREA)
- Closures For Containers (AREA)
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Abstract
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Priority Applications (1)
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PL06753711T PL1888354T3 (en) | 2005-05-18 | 2006-05-18 | Ball-shaped coupling comprising a sealed contact area |
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DE102005022879A DE102005022879A1 (en) | 2005-05-18 | 2005-05-18 | Ball coupling with sealed contact area |
PCT/EP2006/004727 WO2006122807A1 (en) | 2005-05-18 | 2006-05-18 | Ball-shaped coupling comprising a sealed contact area |
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EP1888354A1 true EP1888354A1 (en) | 2008-02-20 |
EP1888354B1 EP1888354B1 (en) | 2010-10-13 |
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EP (1) | EP1888354B1 (en) |
CN (1) | CN101208210B (en) |
AT (1) | ATE484404T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU2006249072B2 (en) |
DE (2) | DE102005022879A1 (en) |
DK (1) | DK1888354T3 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2352077T3 (en) |
PL (1) | PL1888354T3 (en) |
UA (1) | UA90512C2 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2006122807A1 (en) |
ZA (1) | ZA200710985B (en) |
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CN101208210B (en) | 2011-08-24 |
ES2352077T3 (en) | 2011-02-15 |
CN101208210A (en) | 2008-06-25 |
EP1888354B1 (en) | 2010-10-13 |
ATE484404T1 (en) | 2010-10-15 |
DE502006008088D1 (en) | 2010-11-25 |
DK1888354T3 (en) | 2011-02-07 |
AU2006249072A1 (en) | 2006-11-23 |
UA90512C2 (en) | 2010-05-11 |
ZA200710985B (en) | 2008-10-29 |
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DE102005022879A1 (en) | 2006-11-23 |
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